Luminara

Too often do we come across Flash games (especially shooters) that are either too brief or too repetitive. Luminara is a brilliant example of how to avoid those problems. It's simple enough: you are a dot and you fire bullets. And like any good game, the premise always stays exactly this simple. What gets more complex are the subsequent waves of enemies that come at you.

All right, I'm number 53 (606,000 points. Wonder how long that will stand?)! For once I get on a highscore table.

The game is decent. I had a real problem locating the cursor sometimes, though. Perhaps it should be made larger, or given a high contrast? As someone else has mentioned, the ads were placed very annoyingly, but you can circumvent them by resizing the window the game opens in to only be as large as the game window. That helps a lot.

I think it might have been better if the game just went on forever, with progressively harder waves, rather than having a definite end. That does keep it from dragging on too long, on the plus side!

As good as it's ability to cope with graphics intensity may be, it wasn't enough to stop it from slowing down on my system. But then, I can't even run Psychonauts, so the problem could be on my end. Good game nonetheless, and definitely requires you to pay attention (any lack on this part, of course, results in you getting killed later).

Sweet, I just finished it. Hey Jay, you may want to make a note that when submitting your highscore, the game doesn't call attention to the fact that you can neither resubmit after changing your name nor that you're given a default name in the first place. I got a score in, IIRC, the 500K-600K range (and 68th place or so as of the writing) but didn't realize until after I submitted my score that I needed to change my name, and then it was a bit too late to do so.

I agree that it could have gone on longer, but as it is it is a nice, short, and sweet game, and I'd rather have a game that ends too soon and leaves me wanting more than a game that goes on longer than it should and eventually wears me out on it.

Very nice. The enemies reminded me of math class :)
Nothing in the graphics or music really stood out, which is a feature of all good graphics and music. I mean, graphics aren't supposed to take you out of the game and have you going "whoaa...." like you're watching a cinematic or something. They're supposed to enhance the experience. I think this will become the gold standard of flash shooters :)

Hm, let's see:
- Beat the game with a top-100-score on first try? Check.
- While not even realizing that you're supposed to move with the cursor keys? Check.
Something tells me that this game is a tad on the easy side... well, at least as long as you just unshakably sit there in the middle of the screen and concentrate on blasting every geometric shape that dares to come close. Stylish visuals, though. Reminds me a bit of Kenta Cho's games.

Fun game, but I just kept losing my ship and cursor in all the mess - often my eye will follow a piece of white confetti/shrapnel instead of the ship. A larger sized ship and a higher contrast cursor would help a lot, IMHO.

at first i was dubious, but it is indeed pretty easy to win the game without ever moving. it's not that fun, though, since you never get to pick up any power-ups. still, i think it actually makes the game easier. the first time i played the game i moved around, grabbing every power-up i could and i maybe got half-way through. the second time i just stayed in the middle, shooting like mad and finished the game.

This is a stunning, lovely little game! I'll add my voice to those that find it a little hard to dig the ship and the aimpoint out of the visual chaos. They both need to be easier to distinguish against the chaotic background. It would be better if the explosion debris was all one color, or had some other visual separation cue as well.

Great game, died only one time because of the fast-moving triangular ships (appears just before the blue ball). 658,100 points, but got the 53th place. Maybe there's a limit of points, because the first, second and third place had the same points! But the purple diamonds weren't very dangerous, since if you don't move, they stop moving at a safe distance.

I believe that this is a Great Game. The explosions of color are great and I think the music is fantatsic. Only down points are not being able to locate the targeting cursor and not knowing when Luminara 2 is coming out. Will there be one?

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